Broken Promise: A Breaking Bad fan sequel

Telephone Conversation Between Skyler Lambert and Marie Schrader

SKYLER: I have to tell her, Marie. It's time.

MARIE: No, Skyler, you don't.

SKYLER: Marie, she watched part of an episode of Crime Confidential about Walt. [cough] She needs to know, before someone figures it out and tells her.

MARIE: Skyler, no one's going to find out. You're Skyler Lambert, for all the world knows! Hearing that her father, the hallowed, noble science teacher was a meth kingpin would destroy her. Look at what it did to Flynn.

SKYLER: Marie, I... I have lied to her for her entire life, letting her think that her father was a perfect man.

MARIE: Look, as much as it still pains me to say this, Walt was a science teacher, and he was a good man. It's taken a decade of therapy to realize this, but I can't hold a grudge anymore. Walt was a good person once, he just lost that.

SKYLER: It isn't that simple, Marie.

MARIE: You think he stayed a good man?

SKYLER: No, that's not what I meant, it's just not that simple, you don't turn on a dime like that. You don't become a meth kingpin for no reason.

MARIE: Regardless, she does not need to know right now. Telling her would break the love she has for her father, and make him a demon in her eyes. You didn't even need his money, anyway. Think of how tragic that is. Let her think that her father was a brilliant chemist and teacher, not someone who was on a national watchlist and gets profiled on Crime Confidential.

SKYLER: Yeah, that money...well, it doesn't matter. [pause] Maybe you're right, Marie. She is too young. I'll tell her when she's older.

MARIE: I'm glad you see reason in this.

SKYLER: [pained laugh] Ha, well I live to please.

[scream]

SKYLER: Holly!

MARIE: What's going on?

SKYLER: Marie, call the police!!! [dropsphone, voice fading away] Oh my god...!